Tales of the Unexpected
Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.
Cast:Roald Dahl , Andrew Ray , Forbes Collins , Richard Johnson , Joan Collins , Sheila Gish , John Mills , Lucy Gutteridge , Cyril Luckham , Mark Lewis , Douglas Lambert , Jean Kitson , Giles Phibbs , Richard Foxton , Pat Lewis , Roy Marsden , Anthony Valentine , Colin Blakely
S1.E1 ∙ The Man from the South
A young American couple on holiday meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes them a macabre wager.
S1.E2 ∙ Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat
Unable to show her dentist husband Cyril the fur coat her lover has given her Mrs. Bixby pawns it and pretends that she found the ticket. She gives it to Cyril to redeem on her behalf but is taught that two can play at her game when he comes home with rather less than she expected, and she sees that his dental assistant will be warm for the winter.
S1.E3 ∙ William and Mary
When her husband William dies Mary Pearl is shocked that his will stipulates that his brain should be kept alive and observing her from the lounge sideboard. She determines that, even though he is dead, she will continue to annoy him.
S1.E4 ∙ Lamb to the Slaughter
When her policeman husband Patrick callously announces that he is leaving her, Mary Marney hits and kills him with the frozen leg of lamb she has bought for their dinner. Thinking quickly, she calls his colleagues, claiming that she came in from the shops and found him dead. Whilst they speculate over what kind of weapon killed him she considers how to dispose of the evidence.
S1.E5 ∙ The Landlady
Arriving in Bath to take up his first job away from home young Billy Weaver decides to take a room with a charmingly maternal if eccentric landlady. Her dog and cat are both stuffed and the only other names in her guest-book seem vaguely familiar to him from the newspaper but he cannot think why. Sadly he will never find out as he drinks the landlady's poisoned tea and dies as the landlady plans to add him to her collection of stuffed creatures!
S1.E6 ∙ Neck
Invited to a weekend house party by Sir Basil Turton and his younger wife Natalia, John Bannister is struck by the lady's infidelity. She tries to undo his pyjamas and is plainly having an affair with another guest Major Haddock. Jelks, Sir Basil's loyal butler, has also noticed and when Natalia gets her head stuck in an abstract sculpture he knows precisely how to cut her down to size.
S1.E7 ∙ Edward the Conqueror
A musically appreciative stray cat comes between an elderly husband and wife.
S1.E8 ∙ A Dip in the Pool
An American gambler on a trans-Atlantic liner goes into the pool that bets on how far ship sails each day. Expecting bad weather, he bets a low distance, but then the weather fines up. He must come up with a plan to slow the ship down.
S1.E9 ∙ The Way Up to Heaven
A husband and wife are add odds with each other over punctuality. Could an opportunity arise to resolve their differences?
S2.E1 ∙ Royal Jelly
Bee-keeper Albert Taylor and his wife Mabel are concerned that their baby daughter is underweight and seems reluctant to take any nourishment until, that is, Albert decides to feed her on Royal Jelly from his hives. He feeds himself on it as well, becoming almost addicted to it and with very macabre results.
S2.E2 ∙ Skin
In post-war Paris Drioli, an elderly down-and-out, sees a painting for sale by his old friend Soutine, who is now a best-selling artist. Thirty years earlier Soutine tattooed a portrait of Drioli's wife onto his back and it has become extremely valuable. But it is on his back and therefore worthless. How come it is eventually on public exhibition?
S2.E3 ∙ Galloping Foxley
On a train journey William Perkins is convinced that the passenger seated opposite him is 'Galloping' Foxley, who made his life a misery when they were at school together and relives the unpleasant experience before the stranger identifies himself.
S2.E4 ∙ The Hitch-Hiker
American author Paul Duveen gives a mysterious Irishman a lift, and in return receives a series of boons and banes.
S2.E5 ∙ Poison
Harry, a young teacher working in India but about to return home is petrified when a venomous snake creeps into his bed and sits on his belly. His friend Timber happens by and they call a local doctor. The snake is parted from Harry's body and the others leave but.
S2.E6 ∙ Fat Chance
Legal secretary Frances is having an affair with Pharmacist John Burge and is tiring of him not leaving his wife. Can John come up with a professional solution to the problem?
S2.E8 ∙ My Lady Love, My Dove
The Beauchamps have invited a young couple stay with them and Pamela Beauchamp has an idea to spice up her life.
S2.E9 ∙ Georgy Porgy
Attractive vicar George Duckworth had an unusual childhood which leads to problems with the insatiable spinsters of his parish.
S2.E10 ∙ Depart in Peace
Hearing from his old friend Gladys Ponsonby of the talented if unconventional artist John Roydon, art dealer Lionel gets Roydon to visualize Lionel's fiancee Janet nude and paint her accordingly. Janet, however, does not see the joke, for which Lionel pays bitterly, in the literal sense.
S2.E11 ∙ The Umbrella Man
A man's umbrella scheme and an affair become entwined yielding unexpected results.
S2.E12 ∙ Genesis & Catastrophe
In 1889, Austrian customs officer Alois is desperate his wife Klara will pull through a difficult labour and both she and baby will survive.
S2.E13 ∙ Mr Botibol's First Love
Mr Botibol is socially inept and, by his own admission, a failure. But he's a rich man who has dreams of being a great conductor.
S2.E14 ∙ Back for Christmas
Surgeon James loves his orchids and other ladies. A trip to America gives him and his wife an opportunity for improvements.
S2.E15 ∙ The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby
Arthur Appleby has been widowed three times, and run three antique shops in different towns. He has just opened a fourth.
S2.E16 ∙ The Man at the Top
Hardy, a young sailor down on his luck, is left stranded when his ship sails without him so he robs a man but accidentally kills him. His girlfriend Diane informs him that the one man who can help him, the 'man at the top' is Sam Madrid. However, Hardy is in for a shock when he realizes that he has already met Madrid.
S3.E1 ∙ The Flypaper
The police are dragging the marshes for a missing school-girl and a sinister man is approaching other young girls. Young Sylvia is on a bus on the way home from school when a friendly old man begins to talk to her.
S3.E2 ∙ A Picture of a Place
A con artist travels the countryside, telling unsuspecting elderly people their valuable art treasure's worthless. He meets Hazel, whose son's struggling to keep on their run-down old farm, he thinks he can get her to part with an Old Master for nothing.
S3.E3 ∙ Proof of Guilt
A man is found shot dead in his office with only his nonchalant client present, but where's the gun?
S3.E4 ∙ Vengeance Is Mine Inc.
Two down on their luck lads come up with a clever get-rich scheme. But who is the cleverest?
S3.E5 ∙ A Girl Can't Always Have Everything
Suzy and Pat are struggling actresses in a touring company. Herbert's a wealthy, middle-aged widower, who puts money into the production and falls for Suzy, who snaps up the expensive gifts he gives her. They get married but she is only using him and is having affairs with other men, leading Herbert to request a divorce.
S3.E6 ∙ Parson's Pleasure
Crooked antique expert Cyril Boggis dresses as a vicar and calls on Suffolk farmsteads offering to take old furniture off the occupants' hands for a fee. Of course, he knows when the furniture is valuable and none more so than the dresser he sees at Farmer Rummins' run-down place. So as not to create suspicion he tells Rummins that he is only interested in the legs. This is a bad plan on his part because Rummins and his lads have difficulty getting the object of Cyril's greed through the door and decide on drastic action.
S3.E7 ∙ The Stinker
Meek accountant Harold Tinker, despised by his ambitious, younger wife Phyl, meets Jack Cutler, an old school contemporary. Cutler used to call Harold 'Stinker Tinker' and generally made his life a misery. Now, with little recollection of the past, Cutler offers Harold a well-paid job, which he takes, chiefly for Phyl's sake. But Cutler still calls him 'Stinker' and, at a dinner party with the two men and their wives, Harold is convinced by her behaviour that Phyl is having an affair with his boss. It is time for the worm to turn, with fatal results.
S3.E8 ∙ I'll Be Seeing You
Roland Trent is in love with Anna, who is gradually losing her sight but could have an operation to save it. Unfortunately it is not cheap. Roland is married to Vivienne but she is no more in love with him than he is with her. Furthermore she controls the purse-strings and is initially not keen to help the Other Woman, though eventually she agrees to finance the operation, but only if Roland never sees Anna again. Roland, however, has other ideas to get the best of both worlds.
S3.E9 ∙ The Party
Henry Knox, manager of Peckham's toys, is concerned the staff Christmas party will not be the hottest night out.
S4.E1 ∙ Would You Believe It?
Two rogue archaeologists find a unique statue but greed clouds the academic mind.
S4.E2 ∙ Vicious Circle
Young yob Rex Tobin gets caught in the act. Will he 'go straight' or will he get his comeuppance?
S4.E3 ∙ The Boy Who Talked with Animals
A boy who can communicate with animals. soothes a huge beached turtle who's been captured.
S4.E4 ∙ The Best of Everything
Arthur Price is in love with the boss's daughter but lacks confidence. Then he meets Charlie Prince.
S4.E5 ∙ A Woman's Help
Arnold Bourdon has a habit of falling for his disabled wife's attractive home helps. Can Mrs Bourdon find one without a sunny disposition?
S4.E6 ∙ Shatterproof
Gerry Williams returns home to his apartment to be met by an assassin sent to kill him. Can he turn the tables?
S4.E7 ∙ The Sound Machine
Amateur scientist Mr. Klausner invents a sound machine that can detect sounds so quiet he can hear plants.
S4.E8 ∙ Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Sim and Bob find their friend David filling a hole in his cellar and conclude he has killed and buried his wife.
S4.E9 ∙ The Best Policy
Acting bank manager Harry Flock is investigated by the boss following an anonymous allegation.
S4.E10 ∙ The Last Bottle in the World
Millionaire Kyros Kassoulas wants to buy the last existing bottle of the finest ever vintage but will it be a waste?
S4.E11 ∙ Kindly Dig Your Grave
Artist Graham is dejected after continual exploitation by a gallery owner. Meeting a waitress gives him new life.
S4.E12 ∙ Completely Foolproof
A husband and wife each greedily make plans to get as much as they can from their divorce.
S4.E13 ∙ There's One Born Every Minute
A husband and wife receive a large legacy but it only causes problems between them.
S4.E14 ∙ Bosom Friends
When Nell invites Emma to come to visit she realizes she is a 'friend in need'.
S4.E15 ∙ A Glowing Future
Jack comes home after a year away only to announce to Joanna that they are finished and he is moving to Australia.
S4.E16 ∙ The Way to Do It
Roger Carson takes up gambling thinking it will solve his problems.
S5.E1 ∙ Blue Marigold
Myra is an actor and the face--but not the voice--of Blue Marigold perfume, which leads to feelings of dejection.
S5.E2 ∙ The Eavesdropper
Moira overhears a conversation in a restaurant. Is the woman having an affair with her husband?
S5.E3 ∙ Operation Safecrack
Holdwell Safes do a publicity stunt featuring a top safe-cracker but now he has changed career.
S5.E4 ∙ Run, Rabbit, Run
Ex-soldier Robert goes back to visit his old billet in Paris to learn how things have changed around since World War Two.
S5.E5 ∙ Stranger in Town
A charming and eccentric stranger arrives in town. But why?
S5.E7 ∙ Decoy
Chief Inspector McLintock sets up WPC Mary Bryan as a decoy to catch a serial killer.
S5.E8 ∙ Pattern of Guilt
A man desperate to divorce his wife takes drastic action to rid himself of her.
S5.E9 ∙ A Harmless Vanity
Mary discovers her husband is having an affair so has a life-changing makeover.
S5.E10 ∙ Death Can Add
High-flying Oliver has a scam to make his firm, and himself, rich. Can death add?
S5.E11 ∙ Light Fingers
Ralph Stackpole runs a glove factory but gloves are being stolen on a regular basis, throwing suspicion on all those employed there, including Cotter, his designer. Henry brings in Semple, a private detective who comes up with a plan to trap the thief and at breakfast Henry explains it to his usually disinterested wife Joan. As a consequence stolen items start to crop up in the most unlikely places.
S5.E12 ∙ Death in the Morning
Newly married young wife Karen seeks to discover and overcome a malign presence in her new abode.
S5.E13 ∙ What Have You Been up to Lately?
Two failed actors meet by chance and go for a drink together. Once rivals, they discover they now have more in common than they imagined.
S5.E14 ∙ The Absence of Emily
Two sisters and the husband of one have their differences. When Emily goes absent what will the repercussions be?
S5.E15 ∙ In the Bag
Sam is an expert safe cracker - 'a professional'. His accomplice, however, is an anxious amateur.
S5.E16 ∙ A Man with a Fortune
Calculating Janet reckons she will benefit from helping 'Man with a fortune' John Smith find out about his ancestors.
S5.E17 ∙ Who's Got the Lady?
Gallery owner Parnell invests in extensive security measures for a valuable painting he is loaned for display.
S5.E18 ∙ The Skeleton Key
Emma and Max are getting together and her previous boyfriend Andy is not happy about it. Can an old watch key resolve the situation?
S6.E1 ∙ A Passing Opportunity
Frank Jesmond is on hard times and in danger of losing his family when a man named Laughlin gives him a job as a hitman, the mark being Peter Madison, a school contemporary of Frank who has done very well for himself in the States and is back on a visit. Frank arrives at Peter's hotel and introduces himself, and, for old times sake, the two men go to Peter's room for a drink. As they talk, Frank's purpose starts to waver and he finds himself susceptible to a new deal.
S6.E2 ∙ The Memory Man
Colin Mearns scrapes a living with a business helping people improve their memory but it is not a huge success and his girl-friend wants out. Then a Mr. King turns up, seeking Colin's help. He is agitated and rather bad-tempered, having placed a bag in a left luggage locker at a station but forgotten the details and the combination. Colin is certainly able to help but, unaware that Mr. King is really a safe-cracker who keeps his tools in the bag, unfortunately becomes too curious for his own good.
S6.E3 ∙ A Sad Loss
Claire Hawksworth and her boyfriend Dave are struggling to keep up the payments on their Caribbean hotel and had always counted on Claire's wealthy Aunt Alicia leaving her all her money. However, Alicia informs the couple that she is changing her will in favour of her new grand-child. The pair decide that Alicia should meet with an unfortunate swimming accident before the will can be altered and duly despatch her. However, they had reckoned without a letter Alicia had sent to her solicitor.
S6.E4 ∙ Clerical Error
Whilst winding up his late father's affairs for his invalid mother Paul Standing comes across an invoice from a London book-shop and goes to meet the owners, the Carey brothers, who claim that Paul's father owes them money for pornographic books they sent him. In fact the brothers are crooks who scour the obituary columns for the names of deceased worthies and then hit their relatives with the lie that the dead man owed them for erotic reading material, knowing that the ignorant next of kin will pay up to avoid a scandal. However Paul and his mother invite the Careys to their house and greet them with a shot-gun and some very incontrovertible news that certainly scuppers the proposed scam.
S6.E5 ∙ Heir Presumptuous
One of rich uncle George's identical nephews has murdered him. How can the sheriff identify the guilty one?
S6.E6 ∙ Where's Your Sense of Humour?
George Forester is an annoying practical joker, who tries the patience of work colleague Frank Parker and his wife Laura. When the latest jape, involving the sabotaging of a business dinner party, costs Frank promotion and George's wife Julie goes to Edinburgh, leaving him alone in the house, Laura sees an opportunity to put an end to George's pranks for good.
S6.E7 ∙ Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Gerry T Armstrong is on holiday in England, revisiting some of the places he saw when he was a young GI. The old dance hall is now a tawdry nightclub but Gerry is still looking for a girl he met there during the war. Why does he become increasingly desperate as the night drags on?
S6.E8 ∙ The Vorpal Blade
Elderly - uniformed - Teuton Von Baden tells colleague Winterluck a tale from his youth when he was a student in Heidelberg over fifty years earlier. A fellow student Cassan was a bully but a fine swordsman who one day challenged another youth, Macker, to a fight when he found Macker in bed with his girlfriend. Cassan chose Von Baden to be his second, giving him the perfect opportunity to do away with the over-bearing and unpopular student.
S6.E9 ∙ The Wrong 'Un
Helmut Weinrich is a German businessman who has just closed a successful deal in Coventry. Feeling very satisfied and now alone for the evening, he impulsively picks up the bar tab of a pretty girl called Molly and invites her back to his hotel room, despite the warning of the hotel detective that Molly is a 'wrong-un'.
S6.E10 ∙ The Luncheon
Author Tony Medway is thrilled to receive a phone call from Susan Mandeville, inviting him to a restaurant to discuss making a film of his book. After all, Susan is married to an influential film producer and the deal could make Tony's fortune. Unfortunately, Blundell's, the restaurant of Susan's choice, is very expensive. Tony has budgeted himself to have a fairly inexpensive and minimal meal but Susan keeps going for items he can barely afford. Never mind, it will all come right because of her husband, won't it? Assuming he still is her husband.
S6.E11 ∙ The Tribute
Three aristocratic ladies now living in reduced circumstances, agree to have lunch together as a tribute to Dench, the woman who worked as a nanny for all of them in many years ago. As they reminisce, it becomes clear that through their meanness and snobbery, they all treated Dench rather poorly. But maybe their lowly servant can have the last laugh?
S6.E12 ∙ Hit and Run
Dr. Roger Ashburn is heart-broken when his beloved but selfish wife Mary leaves him, in highly public fashion, leaving her wedding ring to be found during a dinner party Roger is giving for a colleague and his wife. In order to get his life back together he decides to get a job in a hospital in a different town, to make a new start. Then, one day, an all too familiar patient is brought in. . .
S6.E13 ∙ Youth from Vienna
Dr Humphrey Baxter falls for TV presenter Caroline Coates. A story of love and desire.
S6.E14 ∙ The Turn of the Tide
Slade is a criminal lawyer who is facing disgrace and asks his colleague Spalding to help cover up for him but Spalding is impervious to corruption and refuses so he needs to be disposed of. Slade lies in wait for him as he takes his customary early morning swim, kills him and drags the body into the sea. But Slade has reckoned without the turn of the tide...
S7.E1 ∙ The Dirty Detail
Fred Pearson is a no-hoper. He comes to recognize an old comrade from 'Nam and thinks about remedying his present situation.
S7.E2 ∙ The Best Chess Player in the World
G.B. Shaw is certainly a gifted chess player. But as he tells his opponent over a game, he is in fact the greatest in the world. To prove it he explains how he planned the perfect murder, after discovering his wife was unfaithful.
S7.E3 ∙ Proxy
Media tycoon Sutton and his two friends are all being blackmailed by a woman with whom all three had past affairs, the disclosure of which could ruin them. Then the woman is found dead. The three men have to dispose of the body without any suspicion linking them to her falling on them. Fortunately William, the faithful chauffeur, comes up with a fool-proof plan.
S7.E4 ∙ Have a Nice Death
In New York to promote his new book 'Women Weeping', British author Sam Luke jauntily dismisses claims that it is sexist in a television interview. However, when he returns to his hotel suite unpleasant things start to happen. A phone caller rings to say "Have a nice death," after which a package containing one of his books arrives and explodes upon opening. Sam is starting to get scared. If only he was at home with his wife everything would be all right. Wouldn't it?
S7.E5 ∙ Number Eight
A driver picks up a hitch-hiker, perhaps not the wisest thing to do when the radio is full of the news of serial murderer the 'Will-o-the-Wisp' killer and the description given of him fits that of the hitcher. Furthermore the passenger seems quite obsessed with the killer to the driver's discomfort. He even knows how many victims there have been. Or does he?
S7.E6 ∙ The Last of the Midnight Gardeners
Walter Oates, editor of a magazine which publishes crime stories, is married to Jane but is having an affair with his secretary Edna, and the two women meet when Edna stands in for an absent guest at a dinner party. Walter is running a competition with a cash prize for the reader who submits the best murder mystery, though most of the entries are rubbish. Then Jane challenges him to write a story, under an assumed name, given that he is the editor. But when life mirrors art, even an assumed name is little defence.
S7.E7 ∙ The Gift of Beauty
Elizabeth kills her husband because she wants to be with her young lover Ray - who, incidentally, helped in the murder - but she feels insecure because of the age gap and so she has a face lift, as well as taking part in an exhaustive exercise regime to help her keep her figure. And then, one day, she sees a flyer, recommending an anti-ageing process known as the Gift of Beauty. Is this really the answer to her prayers, or is it a means to an end in punishing a guilty woman?
S7.E8 ∙ Wet Saturday
On a wet Saturday, Mr. Princey learns that his unbalanced daughter Millicent has hit and killed the man with whom she was obsessed, but who did not love her, with a croquet mallet. Princey wishes, at any cost, to avoid a scandal. When a family friend comes visiting, Princey gets his dim son George to attack him, with a view to making it look as though the murder was a case of self-defence. Never has family solidarity been so important. Nothing must go wrong. Will it?
S7.E9 ∙ Sauce for the Goose
Having arranged the death of her very wealthy husband in order to be with her young lover Stephen - and lavish her late husband's riches on him - Olivia is extremely annoyed by his cavalier attitude when he sees himself as a free agent and takes up with Gloria. He must be taught a lesson.
S7.E10 ∙ Bird of Prey
Jack and Edna's pet parrot dies after laying an unusually large egg which hatches out into a very ugly and fairly large black bird. Initially it does not speak but Jack comes to like it, unlike his wife. Jack suspects Edna of infidelity and comes to see the bird as an ally who will check up on her behaviour for him. Needless to say he is in for a surprise.
S7.E11 ∙ I Like It Here in Wilmington
Garment manufacturer Harry Elton is in big trouble. Thanks to his business partner Marvin's lack of foresight in predicting the next season's fashions, he stands to lose all his cash and face bankruptcy. But Harry likes it in the town of Wilmington, where he and his wife Roberta enjoy a very good life-style. He does not want to see it go. However, if his wife 'went' and he collected on her life insurance policy, he could maintain his comfortable existence. . .
S7.E12 ∙ Accidental Death
Steve and Jane are a couple of thieves who travel the country pretending to be market researchers for Silvertone metal polish whilst they find suitable homes to burgle. In a hotel bar they meet the eccentric old Percy, who, despite his tatty appearance, is rumoured to have a hidden fortune. The couple decide to break into his house but Percy has caught an earlier bus home and surprises them. He will cause them more trouble than they could have imagined.
S7.E13 ∙ The Reconciliation
James Howgill finds his marriage to Caroline unfulfilling, and wants a divorce - but she sees nothing wrong with their situation, and refuses. He therefore hires fastidious private eye H.A.K. Bates in the hope that he can catch her with another man - but the story the detective comes back with leads him to see his wife in a new light, resulting in a reconciliation. Did Caroline, by any chance, stage-manage this outcome?
S7.E14 ∙ The Mugger
Government minister Gerald Overton goes to a party without his wife Jennifer, where he holds forth on his views on law and order - re-claiming power for the ordinary citizen - to some acclaim. After being sidetracked by the seductive Mary Tregallas, he is walking home when he is barged into by a man in a park. He then finds his wallet missing and goes after the man and recovers it from him. However, when he gets home Jennifer points out to him that before he went out he dropped his wallet in the house. . . And there is worse to come.
S7.E15 ∙ The Open Window
Holidaying in Connecticut, Gregory visits an isolated hunting lodge and meets a girl called Jane, who tells him a disturbing story about an accident which befell members of her family when they went through 'the open window' on a hunting expedition. Is she lying or will the figures really return as her mother expects?
S8.E1 ∙ People Don't Do Such Things
Accountant Terence meets famous author Reeve Baker, and when he and his wife become friends with him, it reveals such things that people "do" and "don't do".
S8.E2 ∙ In the Cards
Charlie comes to town without a cent and he and fortune teller Myra look for a fortune.
S8.E3 ∙ Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery
A couple argue whether they are being overcharged in a remote gas station. The old banger has the final say.
S8.E4 ∙ Scrimshaw
Out-of-luck Brenda drifts though life running out of money. Can artist Eric make a better impression on her than he did during their college days?
S9.E1 ∙ Skeleton in the Cupboard
Jane Fisher comes to town to do some detective work. Businessman Robert Smythe has a secret to keep hidden.
S9.E2 ∙ The Colonel's Lady
Colonel George Peregrine's comfortable life is disturbed when his wife writes a bestselling raunchy novel. When he finally reads it, he becomes convinced that she has been having an affair.
S9.E3 ∙ The Surgeon
Wealthy Prince Zawi gives surgeon Robert Sandy a diamond for saving his life. The diamond is extremely valuable and, as a precaution against it being stolen, Robert hides it in a very safe place indeed. However, whilst he and his wife are out, the house is robbed and the diamond is stolen. Next day a colleague of Robert's is operating on a woman who has swallowed something unusual - Robert's diamond. So how did it get inside her?
S9.E4 ∙ The Verger
Albert Dobson is a very good verger who has served the church for years. But when the modernising new vicar discovers Albert cannot read or write, he soon leaves him no choice but to resign. Albert and his wife Milly face an impoverished unwanted retirement, until chance gives Albert the idea of opening a quality tea shop. But can they make a go of such a shop in a modern world that seems to have little patience for their old-fashioned approach?
S9.E5 ∙ The Facts of Life
Young Nicholas Lillie has led a sheltered rural existence, but when he does well in the county fencing competition he is selected to play in the championships in London, much against the wishes of his narrow-minded father. Along with his fencing teacher and headmaster he goes to the big city but loses the contest to champion James Barron-Irvine, who admires his performance and takes him for a night on the town. Here he meets the lovely Zoe, who sees him as little more than a country innocent and ripe pickings. But he is not...
S9.E6 ∙ Wink Three Times
Ten years previously the rich but gauche Babs Colport was persuaded by her friend Holly to hire and meet gigolo Dominic in a hotel bedroom. At the same time the equally bashful provincial solicitor Jeremy Tyler came to the hotel and was set up by Giles, an old school mate. A series of musical beds followed but with a happy outcome as, ten years later, a married couple return to the location where they first met.
S9.E7 ∙ The Dead Don't Steal
Married Ken Johnson runs a charter plane service with his lover and air stewardess Lilian, who indulges in a little smuggling on his behalf. Then disaster strikes for him, as his wife discovers the affair and Lilian says she is leaving him for another man and the smuggling will end. In a rage he kills her and disposes of the body. But to his astonishment she appears to come back from the dead and ensures that justice catches up with him.
S9.E8 ∙ The Finger of Suspicion
American Stephen Baker has cracked open many a safe in his time but he now lives a peaceful existence with his Arab wife Soroya in her native country. The local police come to the house and arrest him for a crime he swears he did not do and take him to meet two Scotland Yard detectives with a view to his extradition. Soroya has to think fast to come up with a plan to convince the police that her husband is innocent.
S9.E9 ∙ A Time to Die
Yves Drouard is a wealthy man but his marriage has gone stale. His wife Marthe has been unable to have children and she, like him, is being unfaithful. Yves' mistress Violette is younger and has just announced that she is pregnant. Yves decides he will kill his wife by rigging up an explosive device which will go off if she tries to leave the building. But then he changes his mind. . .fatally.
S9.E10 ∙ Mr. Know-All
Elly Somerton is working for the summer as a hotel receptionist. She is intrigued by Max Kelada, a roguish archeology professor who is disarmingly honest with her about the tricks he uses to get women into bed. But when a rival of Kelada attempts to humiliate him, it turns out that Mr Know-All may not he the heartless seducer he professes to be.
